How much do you spend on weekly shop. Please be honest this is causing relationship stress!

[bundlebelly]

I am trying very hard to keep to our strict budget of £90 a week, this is for the entire supermarket shop, food, cleaning products, and nappies, milk, etc etc.
I plan the meals, only buy what I need, hardly ever any treats,mostly own brands and it is tough. I am told by SIL that she spends £70. But I don't understand how. She goes to Waitrose! And buys those posh packets of smoothies, and organic babywipes, wine, etc etc. DH says if she can do it so can I. This is causing a lot of stress. We have a family of four. How much do you spend per week? Not in an ideal world, I mean really and honestly.

that makes us look really greedy theres lots of food there

Can we come to your house for tea?!

gosh u like your lettuce

love looking at peoples shopping,god id love working on a checkout,id be asking what the products like

I have set a budget of £100 for all supermarket shopping, and buy lots of smart price and own brand stuff to keep to this. And I do not need to buy nappies any more, that makes a big difference as they are so expensive. That is for me, DH, DD (age 11) and DS (age 8).

I think you are doing pretty well actually.

Maybe your SIL doesn't eat.

Tell your DH if he can do any better he should feel free to take over responsibility for all food shopping. [hhhm]

It's really interesting how the figures have changed since similar threads a year or two back. Everything's going up isn't it? It's not just my imagination? We can't shop for less than £70 or £80 a week now. It was £50 or £60 a couple of years back.

Meat prices are really going up! I went shopping this week ( £175 for 2 weeks for 6) and the minced turkey had gone up by 18p per pack...that cost me over 50p more than it did 2 weeks ago alone. Sounds scooge like...but hell I am

was meant to say "scrooge"...it's late and the beer was on special offer

I spend about £60 depending what we need in my weekly big shop, for a family of 3 with no nappies or alcohol.

I then pop into the shop midweek for topups of milk, bread and cheese.

I reckon about £75 a week. I think you do well to keep to a £90 budget for 4 of you with buying nappies. I think your SIL might be streching the truth a bit.

Tell your hubby to do the shopping if he thinks he can do better.

Yes, food prices definitely going up, and by a lot more than the headline inflation rate I believe.

One example I noticed, Asda own brand butter was for ages 80p, then overnight shot up to £1.14. That's a 42% increase, and it is being mirrored with other foods.

Maud, there is a lot of milk there! needing the Lacto-free stuff can get expensive so I understand that, but also, there is more than £20 worth of juice/smoothies in there, that's a bit excessive for just one week.

I do a Sainsbury's online shop once a week for £50-£60 and then top up with bits at the weekend, if you add lunches out and takeaways we probably spend around £100 a week on food in total for me, DH and DS who is still just about in nappies and I am about to have DS2 any day now.

I do agree that food costs have gone up, but everyone, myself included could look at their food shop and make improvements.

Between £80 and £100 for a family of four (incl. one infant on formula). I always shop in Waitrose. That does include cleaning products (don't use much of that ) but no toiletries or nappies (I get those in Boots). I don't top up elsewhere during the week, but I do spend £50-£75 once a month at the farmers' market. Takeaways about once a month, almost never eat lunch out. FWIW I don't actually think Waitrose is too much more expensive, depending on what you buy (I buy very little meat and fish there, because I get it from the FM and freeze it, and I very rarely buy prepared food). Well, actually it rather depends what you're comparing - Waitrose compared with Tesco Value or whatever it's called would be much more expensive, but like for like quality (ie either brand names, or Waitrose own compared with Tesco Finest) I think it's pretty comparable.

I've just been on www.mysupermarket.com - I can't believe the difference in prices!

I have a local Tesco and Asda but also like to go to Sainsburys. Just looked up Cox's apples - I wouldn't even look at the prices in Sainsbury's but just that product is 90p more! Then I looked at Anchor butter (the one in a tub) - 60p more - then Cathedral City cheese and it's 99p more...

I really didn't think there was such a difference in prices.

By the way, can we be sure the prices are always accurate?

Just realised that by using own brand names eg Tesco's Clementines, there can be no comparison.

Very, very sneaky.

What do you mean no comparision? Do they only put up known brands? Why is it sneaky, sorry to be thick about it.

They can't really do comparisons on own brands as they are not identical.

It's not sneaky, it just wouldn't be fair.

It's a good way of getting round it, though, Dancing.

I used to be able to spend £70 per week but things have gone up so much it is now about £100 pw. Family of 5 with one in nappies.

We are a family of 5, no nappies as DD2 is in cloth nappies but does eat solid food.

Including baby milk, cleaning stuff and treats we spent 49.75 in tesco this week and thats to last all week. We cook from scratch and the only extra thing weve had to pop out for this week was for a bottle of wine for DP, but he drinks cheap wine so its ok . We didnt need washing powder or a few other essentials but it can creap upto £55-£60 with these added.

I spend £70 pounds a week 2 of us no nappies.

We are a family of 7 (youngest child 6).
Weekly shop is normally around £100. In the week I will top it up with about £10 of extra shopping ie bread, milk and fruit/veg.

I really am far too embarrassed to say what I spend. And I always think I'm trying hard. But I am totally totally crap.
In my defence, I try to make things like soup and everyone eats it and likes it and half an hour later OP is looking for something meaty to eat.
Could the successful shoppers among us tell us some of the meals they make?
Also pleeeease don't slate me but I just cannot bring myself to buy battery chicken or anything with palm oil in (although in some ways this helps as I now have to make most of own bread etc

£100 everything - cleaning toiletries milk bread - for 6 of us.

When we were a family of 2 (Me and DD) my budget was £35 a week (also fed a big dog, two cats and DD was in nappies)

We ate very well. Shopped at the butchers, grocers, bakers.

Now we are a family of 3 (DP, me and DD) my budget is £60 a week, but I also have £10 a week for luxuries if I want it. (wine or a takeaway usually) If I don't spend it it goes in the emergencies fund. Still feeding a big dog but only one cat now and DD is out of nappies.

We still eat very well. Shop at ocado and get a veg box.

I menu plan each week and I either do a shop at Tesco or Sainsbury's online. I used to be able to spend £50 a week for the 5 of us but I have noticed recently that it has crept up to £70/80 a week and I have had a couple of £90's recently. This includes everything from food to toiletrie to cleaning stuff. I have fairly much got it sorted so I don't have to do any top ups.

I also do a shop at Approved Foods every 4/6 weeks which can be anything from £20 to £50. I try and get a lot of lunch box/treat stuff from there.

I have two DC's who have food intollerances, one is gluten intollerant and the other is GI and lactose intollerant which doesn't help.

We have just started trying to get DC3 going through the night dry so hopefully that will be the end of the nappies.

I try and follow a lot of tips from Moneysavingexpert.com especially their Oldstyle moneysaving board.